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Draft Scheme Standard R6RS Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the scheming-with-a-lisp dept.

Watson Ladd writes, "The new version of the official Scheme standard has been released as a draft (PDF)." From the draft: "[This] report gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, and message passing styles, find convenient expression in Scheme."

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  1. Hurray! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    (I (for one (welcome (our new (Scheme (overlords.))))))

    1. Re:Hurray! by Lachryma · · Score: 3, Funny

      shouldn't this be
      (welcome '(I ((for one))) '(overlords (our new Scheme)))
      ?

  2. New features? by RPoet · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've never heard about this language, but hopefully the new version will help it keep up with the latest innovations in programming languages, such as codeblocks and Web 2.0.

    Yours truly,
    Fictional stereotypical teenage Ruby fanatic.

    --
    "Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
  3. Re:For Language Enthusiasts by TheNumberless · · Score: 3, Funny

    Be careful man. It's not wise to leave unbalanced parentheses in a Slashdot post in general, but in an article about Scheme, it's damn near suicidal!